Ontario Premier, tobacco growers courting China

The optics on this, to me, is not good. As we should all be well aware, big tobacco pushes cigarettes in third world nations this crazy. While I doubt the Premier's intentions are to connect big tobacco with a gargantuan market, this may come back to bite the Libs in the ass. It's just an exercise that we must go through to satisfy a sector of the Ontario economy that has been abosultely decimated by the Liberal goverment, and will not recover. But as you can see in the article, the tobacco associations are going to run with this. So will the opposition.

The Globe and Mail: Ontario Premier, tobacco growers courting China